Chapter 439: The Outbreak of Public Discontent
Where does my money go?
I obviously used to be so rich, spending money like dirt, flying cars have always been to buy a smash one, to have a meal has always been to charter the hotel, is so rich, such expenses do not see their own money less, but has been increasing, no matter how to spend it, but now even if I eat coarse grain, I can no longer save it, try my best to make money, but the money is still getting less and less, and I can't accumulate it at all.
What went wrong? Why is this so?
This is a question in the minds of ordinary Serens who don't know economics, this question has always plagued them, the empire did not burst the financial bubble, but wanted to slowly dissolve it, and the impact would be much smaller, but even the ordinary Serens on these two planets were still very uncomfortable.
Imagine when a person works hard for a day, works until he coughs up blood, only to look back and find that not only did he not make money, but he also lost a lot, and he can only spend the rest of his life in the days when he owes money, owes money, and owes money, what kind of depressing gloom is that, in stark contrast to the short three years before.
No one doubts the empire, and people who know a little bit of the inside story and understand economics naturally understand what the crux is, but as early as the beginning of expressing their financial opinions, they were checked by the relevant departments of the empire, and I have to say that the empire has done a good job in controlling public opinion.
But this is also a bad move, the more you trust the empire, the more angry you will feel after realizing that the root of your poverty comes from the empire, as if you have been stabbed in the back by your most trusted best friend.
Everything has been arranged clearly, amoeba dug out a big hole, and the empire took the initiative to jump into the pit.
In the interview, the amoeba envoy talked about the question of the Seren, which focused the public vision of the Seren people on the construction subsidy.
The public is aware that the root cause of the substantial increase in their own economic income comes from the amoeba's construction subsidy, and they do not know the internal workings of the economy, but this does not prevent them from knowing about it from other economists, and because of this, the attitude of the Serens on the two colonial stars towards the collectors who visit the Comic Con has changed from cold rejection at the beginning to warm welcome, and the attitude is surprisingly good, after all, this is in a sense the amoeba is equivalent to their food and clothing parents are customers! God too!
There are also some Seline people with some brains among the people, because the Empire's methods are very secretive, coupled with the guidance of public opinion and the people's loyalty to the Empire, these people take it for granted that the economic decline on the Colony Star is because Amoeba is cutting the export quality of construction subsidies, and it is precisely because of this that the Colony Star economy continues to decline.
These people don't have too many complaints about this, amoeba's construction assistance is, to put it bluntly, a large amount of resources are given, and there is no difference between giving money for nothing, just like giving money to beggars. Obviously not! They don't have such qualifications!
It is precisely because of this group of brainy Seren people that the people's resentment of the people's continuous poverty has been temporarily suppressed, and it is precisely because of this effect that the Empire is happy that these people are active in public opinion and reduce the pressure on the Empire.
It's a pity that the empire is wrong, these people will soon change from the defenders of the empire to the rebels of the empire, this group of people is the most loyal to the empire among the people, and it will also be the most rebellious group of people who love and hate deeply, probably this is the truth.
These people learned about amoeba expanding the quality of exports from the program, which did not match the conclusion they had taken for granted at the beginning, which meant that there were other reasons for their poverty.
Then the resentment that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly exploded.
"Who made us so poor!"
"Who made us so in debt like we are now!"
"Get out! I promise not to kill him! ”
Public opinion is full of such voices, in a civilization, the masses are the source of strength, and they have been guided by public opinion and diverted their attention before, but now it is different, they notice the key point of the problem, and it is not the amoeba that causes them to become poor.
There has always been no shortage of talents among the people, and it doesn't matter if you don't know economics, you can learn it from scratch, anyway, there is no shortage of knowledge books on economics on the colony star, and soon some people follow the financial context and discover the serious imbalance between the quality of access to resources and amoeba exports.
The ordinary Serens of the two colonial stars corresponded with each other, comparing the sum of the resources obtained by both sides to the export quality given by Amoeba, and the results were clear at a glance, and even fools could see that the export quality had been expanded by five times, and even one percent of the original total resources were not even used.
This data further begs the question: Where do such huge amounts of resources go?
At this time, some people began to doubt the empire, and it was natural and clear that when the empire did not intervene, the economy of the two colonial stars took off rapidly in just a few years, and after the empire intervened, the economy has been slowly declining, and it is not as good as year by year.
In addition, before the amoeba construction aid, the colony applied to the Empire's resources, and the Empire has been looking for reasons to prevaricate, saying that the resources are insufficient.
Forget about resources, this is understandable, after all, the military pressure that amoeba gives to the empire is not many places that require resources, but the empire does not give technology or talents, which leads to the slow development of the colonial star, how can a group of people develop a wild planet with their bare hands?
This is obviously difficult!
Now that it has finally developed, and there is such a thing, the new and old grievances are added together, and the grievances of the people of the two planets have naturally appeared, and they vowed to investigate thoroughly to find out where these resources have gone, and who made them so poor.
Demonstrations, demonstrations, and conspiracy theories are rife, all of which point to Selene, and the populace is demanding that the Empire allow their two-planet investigation team to return to Selene to investigate the flow of these resources.
The result was naturally vetoed by the Empire, which said that it attached great importance to this matter, and would set up a professional investigation team to conduct an intensive investigation with the interests of the people as the lead.
Such an official announcement channeled public resentment to a certain extent, and the empire soon launched a high-ranking official of the empire with serious corruption, and then all the pots were detained.
Although this has damaged the reputation of the empire to a certain extent, it has also saved the reputation of the empire to the greatest extent, and the people will think that anyone in the world can make mistakes, and it is normal for a huge system like the empire to come out with one or two corrupt officials, but they are more unlucky to encounter it.
So, the empire threw out a poor corrupt official and solved the matter perfectly.
But that's just the beginning.